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HANDLE FOR ORANGE BOXES, &0.

No. 313,051. I PatentedMar. 3, 1885.-

A Home y UNITED STATES PATENT oARTER W. BRYAN, or KANSAS CITY, MrssoURI.

HANDLE FOR ORANGE-BOXES, 86C.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,051, dated March 3, 1885.

Application filed August 7, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, CARTER W. BRYAN, of Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Handle for Orange-Boxes, 820., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The device is made of wire and a piece of wood or its equivalent. One end of the wire is passed around the piece ofwood and then twisted around the main portion of the wire,and the other end is bent to form an eye or 100p, and also twisted about the main portion of the wire. A stapleis driven through the eye thus formed, for the purpose of securing the handle to boxes for oranges, and other boxes and articles which are carried by hand.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the handle ready for attachment; Fig. 2, the same attached and ready for use.

A is a piece of wood serving as a hand-hold, and O a shank provided with an eye, B, through which a staple, D, is passed and driven into the wood E, which may be the end, I

side, or top of box. The handle, being T- shaped, requires only one connection. The shank can be made of light and cheap wire, and the whole device produced at such a very small cost that the expense of attaching it to boxes and various cheap articles is scarcely appreciable.

\Vhat I claim is- A handle consisting of twisted wire with a wooden hand-hold or its equivalent in one end and an eye i'ormedin the opposite end loosely interlocked with a fastener capable of piercing the material of the article to be carried, whereby the handle may be attached and a decided hold obtained, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CARTER V. BRYAN. 

